USA Policy positions of Donald Trump; let's see how many he achieves

[Saint]

Yeah, I reckon Huckabee is gonna win this one and start a war with Iran and send the price of oil to the moon.

 

[PiCkLeJuiCe]

Has anyone looked at how musk makes money? % of government funding and his carbon credit swaps?

Just like trump they know how to rip off the system and tell the tax payer how they should be grateful for them

Yeah, maybe, but at least Musk is delivering something real. I'd be more than happy to see the government spend zero on management consultants like McKinsey, BCG etc. They provide absolutely nothing.

 

[Chief]

at least Musk is delivering something real.

Decades old tech gimmicks to distract from non-delivery of billions in government contracts?

 

[PiCkLeJuiCe]

Decades old tech gimmicks to distract from non-delivery of billions in government contracts?

Yeah, but much better value for money for the US Government. Space-X launches cost between $70 - $100 million per launch, compared to $2 billion for NASA' STS.

"The results are clear in a statistical analysis of NASA and SpaceX projects. In 118 space missions, NASA saw an average cost overrun of 90%. Over 16 missions, SpaceX saw an average cost overrun of 1.1%. SpaceX projects tended to take an average of about four years, while NASA projects averaged about seven years. Interestingly, both NASA and SpaceX tend to promise faster delivery than actually occurs—SpaceX does in four years what it says it would do in three, while NASA does in six or seven years what it said it would do in four."

 

[Chief]

Space-X launches cost between $70 - $100 per launch

Huh?

 

[Satan]

Huh?

We should send a few pollies into space one way

 

[PiCkLeJuiCe]

Huh?

Million obviously

 

[tangolikelama]

Jesus christ

 

[Chief]

Trump's team writing Elon's posts.

Or Elon has just been spending time with Trump and can't help but speak like him because it gets attention.

 

[liz]

Jesus christ

Musk should know something about unprincipled douchebags.

If there’s nothing problematic about Gaetz’s past behaviour, there should be no reason for it to be kept from the public domain.

 

[PiCkLeJuiCe]

Jesus christ

The massive forehead doesn't mean he has a big brain.

If Gaetz and Daisy Pearce had a child, it would just be a forehead.

 

[liz]

Yeah, maybe, but at least Musk is delivering something real. I'd be more than happy to see the government spend zero on management consultants like McKinsey, BCG etc. They provide absolutely nothing.

Spending on expensive, mostly useless and self-serving consultants is exactly what you get when a ruling party guts the public service and then realises that stuff does need to get done. It’s what we’ve witnessed here.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Wow whoever was in power in 2020 went on a wild spending spree. Can anyone remind me who that was?

Trump started the spending spree (and heightened debt) with Covid but Biden continued it, like most other economies did too.

 

[liz]

Trump started the spending spree (and heightened debt) with Covid but Biden continued it, like most other economies did too.

Where did the two spend the money? Giving handouts to business leaders under the pretext of saving jobs, which led to an accelerated transfer of wealth to the already obscenely wealthy? Or an investment in the country’s infrastructure?

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Where did the two spend the money? Giving handouts to business leaders under the pretext of saving jobs, which led to an accelerated transfer of wealth to the already obscenely wealthy? Or an investment in the country’s infrastructure?

a fair chunk of it was stimulus and other handouts during covid.

It's actually interesting, US spend has increased outside of trend from 2019 onwards in terms of real spend, but as a % of GDP has remained relatively linear, means their GDP has increased along with their spend. BUT at the same time USA debt has skyrocketed since COVID.

Basically, it means the US is spending inefficiently and spending on stuff that provides little to no returns for the country.

In short, US spending as a number isn't an issue per say. It's what they are spending it on.

 

[BigTacoBandit]

Looks like he will.

We'll see

 

[iDon]

Jesus christ

Ahh the white sth african giving his views on MG. Zero shock here.

 

[Spearman]

Jesus christ

LOL if anything Garland is the opposite of that, too many principles and too nice. If he were unprincipled and a douche he would have started just throwing people in jail without due process days after 1/6, including Trump. He's a jurist not a prosecutor.

 

[Gough]

Ahh the white sth african giving his views on MG. Zero shock here.

This is a good piece on his background.

What Elon Musk Gets Wrong about South Africa — The Dial

The tech mogul's statements about his country of origin reveal that he never really knew the place.

www.thedial.world

 

[Satan]

This is a good piece on his background.

What Elon Musk Gets Wrong about South Africa — The Dial

The tech mogul's statements about his country of origin reveal that he never really knew the place.

www.thedial.world

Whenever a white boy in his late teens left South Africa in the 1980s, he was ipso facto escaping conscription.

Another draft dodger

 

[carltonchelsea]

optics could have been better, just dont think its that big of a deal though.

wish as much focus on the maccas was on his crazy view on vaccines rofl.

Like sucking off a microphone?

 

[Gough]

Whenever a white boy in his late teens left South Africa in the 1980s, he was ipso facto escaping conscription.

Another draft dodger

Not going to blag him for that, my dad spent his early twenties trying to avoid the army. When he graduated he moved down south, after he'd been there a couple of years and was given the choice of citizenship and conscription or piss off. With Rhodesia looking no better and a British passport in hand he moved there and then here as a ten pound Pom only after making sure he was going to be too old to get drafted.

 

[zumahawk]

He was on a plane where trumps team organised the food.

When your on work trips you often dont have a choice of what to eat.

To argue this is proof of anything is a bit silly.

Not proof of anything- just bad optics.

 

[Chief]

Spending on expensive, mostly useless and self-serving consultants is exactly what you get when a ruling party guts the public service and then realises that stuff does need to get done. It’s what we’ve witnessed here.

Puts money in the pockets of donors, though.

The UK is spending incredible amounts on outsourcing with huge companies that often completely fail to deliver, and then spending more with the same companies to try again. With court cases and criminal behaviour managed away, of course.